Praxapostolos
The Praxapostolos is a twelfth-century Greek manuscript of the Acts and Epistles of the Apostles, made for liturgical reading in the Byzantine church, and held today by a Swiss library. The pictures show standing apostles in gold-haloed frames beside columns of Greek text, painted in pink, blue and ochre on parchment. A designer might take from them the flat, elongated figures, the gold leaf halos and the dense ornamental initial bands.
